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| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A small granite stone and American Flag mark the grave of Belle Boyd, actress and Confederate spy. The grave is inscribed with: "Belle Boyd, Confederate sp... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A large, two-story wood building with nine over six windows identified as an inn; at the time of the photograph it served as the Butte des Morts Post Offic... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A front view of the Layton House, which was originally an inn. Signs on the building indicate that at the time of the photograph it was the business of Car... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The Stone Barn Tavern, located about three miles west of Milton. The three cottonwood trees in front of the tavern were brought from Vermont. There are sev... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A man enters the side door of the stone barn at the Stone Barn Tavern, three miles west of Milton. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Clothes dry on a line behind the Prairie House Inn north of Monroe. The house has an exposed stone lower level and a porch wrapping around the two sides w... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A stone house with a small front porch and balcony stands beside another stone building on the left. There are milk cans and chickens in front of the house... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across street of several commercial buildings in a downtown area. The stone building in the foreground is nearly covered by vines and is identified as... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | An early two-story frame house with a lean-to addition on the rear. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View from road of a two-story brick structure identified as the Melchior Hotel. See also image 67069. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The Astor House hotel, with an automobile parked under trees on the left, and a large billboard for Wrigley's Spearmint gum on the right. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A copy of an original photograph by H.H. Bennett of the Cliff House Inn at Devil's Lake as seen from the beach. Abraham Lincoln is reported to have slept h... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A copy of an older photograph by H.H. Bennett. The description reads: "With two women under trees in front of ruined building. The women are Mrs. Greene ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A deteriorating wooden structure with two gables on the front, identified as the Red Tavern between Kilbourn and Mauston, built in 1848. |
| Date: | 09 03 1925 |
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| Description: | A deteriorating one and a half-story log structure owned by John Corn. He was a Menomonee tribesman who operated a logger's place of entertainment and supp... |
| Date: | 08 04 1925 |
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| Description: | View from across street of three-story, classical revival, Bay State House. There is a side wing and a two-story porch across the front. An automobile is p... |
| Date: | 08 24 1925 |
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| Description: | An outdoor brick bake oven with utensils alongside. According to the photographer, these were "often used by the early taverns." |
| Date: | 08 24 1925 |
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| Description: | A very large cemetery monument with a female figure sculpture, inscribed with the name Ehle. There is a shed in the background. The Ehle family lived in ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a small town with a river and bridge in the foreground. High water has washed away the road and river bank at the far end of the bridge. T... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | The dam and four-story wooden mill on the Baraboo River. A bridge crosses the river on the left. There are houses and commercial buildings in the backgrou... |
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